QGIS User Guide¶

Preamble
Conventions
- GUI Conventions
- Text or Keyboard Conventions
- Platform-specific instructions
Foreword
Features
- View data
- Explore data and compose maps
- Create, edit, manage and export data
- Analyze data
- Publish maps on the Internet
- Extend QGIS functionality through plugins
- Python Console
- Known Issues
What’s new in QGIS 2.14
Getting Started
- Installation
- Launching QGIS
- Sample Session: Load raster and vector layers
- Projects
- Output
QGIS GUI
- Menu Bar
- Panels and Toolbars
- Map View
- Status Bar
General Tools
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Context help
- Rendering
- Color Selector
- Blending Modes
- Zooming and Panning
- Measuring
- Select and deselect features
- Data defined override setup
- Identify features
- Annotation Tools
- Spatial Bookmarks
- Nesting Projects
- Decorations
- Authentication
- Save layer into file
- Use of variables for dynamic content
QGIS Configuration
- Project Properties
- Options
- Customization
Working with Projections
- Overview of Projection Support
- Global Projection Specification
- Define On The Fly (OTF) Reprojection
- Custom Coordinate Reference System
- Default datum transformations
QGIS Browser
- QGIS Browser widget
- QGIS Browser as a standalone application
Working with Vector Data
- Supported Data Formats
- The Symbol Library
- The Vector Properties Dialog
- Expressions
- Working with the Attribute Table
- Editing
- Virtual layers
Working with Raster Data
- Working with Raster Data
- Raster Properties Dialog
- Raster Analysis
Working with OGC Data
- QGIS as OGC Data Client
- QGIS as OGC Data Server
Working with GPS Data
- GPS Plugin
- Live GPS tracking
Authentication System
- Authentication System Overview
- User Authentication Workflows
- Security Considerations
GRASS GIS Integration
- Demo dataset
- Loading GRASS raster and vector layers
- Importing data into a GRASS LOCATION via drag and drop
- Managing GRASS data in QGIS browser
- GRASS Options
- Starting the GRASS plugin
- Opening GRASS mapset
- GRASS LOCATION and MAPSET
- Importing data into a GRASS LOCATION
- The GRASS vector data model
- Creating a new GRASS vector layer
- Digitizing and editing a GRASS vector layer
- The GRASS region tool
- The GRASS Toolbox
QGIS processing framework
- Introduction
- The toolbox
- The graphical modeler
- The batch processing interface
- Using processing algorithms from the console
- The history manager
- Writing new Processing algorithms as python scripts
- Handing data produced by the algorithm
- Communicating with the user
- Documenting your scripts
- Example scripts
- Best practices for writing script algorithms
- Pre- and post-execution script hooks
- Configuring external applications
- The QGIS Commander
Processing providers and algorithms
- GDAL algorithm provider
- LAStools algorithm provider
- Modeler Tools
- OrfeoToolbox algorithm provider
- QGIS algorithm provider
- R algorithm provider
- SAGA algorithm provider
- TauDEM algorithm provider
Print Composer
- Overview of the Print Composer
- Composer Items
- Creating an Output
Plugins
- QGIS Plugins
- Using QGIS Core Plugins
- Coordinate Capture Plugin
- DB Manager Plugin
- Dxf2Shp Converter Plugin
- eVis Plugin
- fTools Plugin
- GDAL Tools Plugin
- Geometry Checker Plugin
- Geometry Snapper Plugin
- Georeferencer Plugin
- Heatmap Plugin
- Interpolation Plugin
- MetaSearch Catalogue Client
- Offline Editing Plugin
- Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Plugin
- Raster Terrain Analysis Plugin
- Road Graph Plugin
- Spatial Query Plugin
- Topology Checker Plugin
- Zonal Statistics Plugin
Help and Support
- Mailing lists
- IRC
- BugTracker
- Blog
- Plugins
- Wiki
Appendix
- GNU General Public License
- GNU Free Documentation License
Literature and Web References